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Tina Cascone, MD, PhD, discusses the main findings from the phase 3 CheckMate-77T trial of a nivolumab-based regimen for the treatment of patients with stage IIA to IIIB non–small cell lung cancer.

“Belzutifan plus cabozantinib continue to show durable anti-tumor activity in patients with clear cell RCC who are treatment naïve or previously treated,” said Toni K. Choueiri, MD.

Treatment with sacituzumab govitecan-hziy in the second line demonstrated responses in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, according to results from the phase 2 TROPiCS-03 trial.

The addition of atezolizumab to chemotherapy improved progression-free survival in frontline advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma, in particular, among patients with deficient mismatch repair status.

Modest but durable antitumor activity was observed with sacituzumab govitecan-hziy in the treatment of patients with metastatic or locally recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who received between 1 and 3 prior lines of therapy.

Data from the KEYNOTE-A18 trial support the addition of pembrolizumab to chemoradiotherapy, which has been in place as standard of care for patients with newly diagnosed, previously untreated, high-risk locally advanced cervical breast cancer since 1999.

The addition of pembrolizumab to trastuzumab plus chemotherapy improved progression-free survival in the first-line for patients with metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Adding 177Lu-PSMA-617 to enzalutamide improved prostate-specific antigen progression-free survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Adding pembrolizumab to chemotherapy reduced the risk for disease recurrence, progression, complications, or death compared with chemotherapy alone in the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer.

The addition of durvalumab to standard-of-care chemotherapy shows potential to improve downstaging in patients with resectable gastroesophageal junction and gastric cancer, according to findings from the phase 3 MATTERHORN study.

Longer follow-up data from the KRYSTAL-7 trial support the initiation of a phase 3 trial evaluating concurrent adagrasib with pembrolizumab in treatment-naïve patients with KRASG12C-mutated non–small cell lung cancer and PD-L1 ≥50%.

The phase 3 FLAMES trial results demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival with senaparib monotherapy vs placebo, regardless of patient subgroup, in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer.

Tarlatamab 10 mg showed responses in patients with previously treated small cell lung cancer, and no new safety signals were observed.

Extending abemaciclib with endocrine therapy for 2 years continues to lower the risk of invasive disease and distant relapse in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, as demonstrated in the 5-year efficacy findings from the monarchE trial.

Positive response and preliminary evidence of longer progression-free survival was observed with a venetoclax-based triplet therapy vs a doublet, in a phase. 2 study.

The observed benefits of ciltacabtagene autoleucel in patients with multiple myeloma and poor prognostic features are consistent with the overall the population of CARTITUDE-4.

NXC-201 has demonstrated safety and elicited hematologic and organ responses in patients with relapsed/refractory amyloid light chain amyloidosis, including frail patients.

In the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 trial, ciltacabtagene autoleucel was shown to be effective when used in patients with multiple myeloma exhibiting poor prognostic features.

IberVd showed high efficacy with deep, ongoing responses among older patients with transplant-ineligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Researchers identified KDM6A’s role in CD38 regulation and found that an EZH2 inhibitor could potentially reduce resistance to an anti-CD38 antibody in multiple myeloma cells.

Although response rates were lower among patients given previous anti-BCMA therapy, teclistamab shows promise for all patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

At a median duration of response of 12.2 months, the objective response rates with forimtamig across all dose levels was 66.7% with a very good partial response rate of 54.2%, according to data from a phase 1a dose-escalation trial.

According to data presented at IMS 2023, a real-world analysis showed that teclistamab demonstrated comparable efficacy to the results observed in the phase 2 MajesTec-1 trial for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The Dara-KRd regimen with double transplant induced deep response rates and a high minimal residual disease negativity rates among patients with high-risk, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Madhav V. Dhodapkar, MBBS, discusses some of the immunotherapies under investigation and those that are being highlighted at the 20th International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting for patients with multiple myeloma.

Findings presented at IMS 2023 suggest multi-specific strategies will be needed to avoid the antigen loss created by sequential mono-immunotherapies.